Sadly, this is the last review of the TODD/KELLY Series, as poor Thelma had died by the time this happy short was released. As usual, Max has reviewed this gem so well, I am going to have to squeeze in what I can! Here goes....The immediate beginning, has a student giving it the most 'geezer' walk, you will ever see!Student dentist, Mickey Daniels, has his knee in his patients lap, with what looks like a pair of pliers in both hands, gripping his tooth and asking, "Am I hurting you?" The poor patient amazingly says 'no', just before giving an Ollie-type "Whooooooaa!!" As we hear a crash, as fellow students look bravely on!They go to the luncheonette, where Thelma makes her uniform look saucy, and Patsy doesn't. Thelma whacks Mickey on his head and says,"Why don't you pull one of your own teeth?" He replies with a big gapped-tooth smile, "Well, you see, it has to be a wisdom tooth." And the coach points out,"And what would he be doing with a wisdom tooth?" Mickey, taking no offence, simply says, "Yeah."

For reasons known only to herself, Patsy serves and speaks to an imaginary customer, and even THEN she gets worked up and says her famous line, "Do you wanna make something out of it?" She ends this spectacle, la-la-ing, "...A LOVELY MELODY..." Even Mickey is perplexed! Thelma then says,well, almost SINGS, "I think I know where there's a wisdom tooth, and it'll never be missed!" Eyes on Patsy! Thelma convinces Patsy to get her wisdom tooth removed, by showing her a distorted reflection of Patsy's face in a silver coloured tray. When she asks Patsy, "Do you wanna inhale your food?" She does a funny impression of a toothless head.Outside the surgery, listening to the plumbers' working noises, and mistaking them for DENTISTS drills etc, Patsy's fears multiply, even with Thelma's 'helpful' idea of chanting to yourself, "It does not hurt....." and " I don't feel a thing..." Ends with a free-for-all attempt by the whole football team, to extract Patsy's tooth, but instead get the Professor's.

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Facts•Production A-37 - Thelma Todd & Patsy Kelly series.•This was the twenty-first - and last entry in the Todd-Kelly film series.•Copyrighted January 27, 1936.Did you notice?•